COLLEGE OF GARBAGE: PICTOGRAPHIC STATE OF ROT IN KWARA STATE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, ILORIN

A visit to Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin depicts how and where not to train as school teachers. The college is overshadowed by weeds and lack of environmental maintenance. Students and lecturers in the college who spoke to SECURITY MO0NITOR lament paucity of funds for the upliftment of the pedagogical institute and lack of responsible management to propel the institution to a greater height.

Dilapidated lecture halls, untidy offices, weedy environment, outdated structure, old and archaic laboratory halls are prominently featured as captured by our team of under cover photo journalists. Both females and males hostels were frequent abode for snakes, scorpion, millipede and other reptiles.

SECURITY MONITOR was reliably informed that since the closure of the college by the Bukola Saraki’s administration in Kwara State and the public outcry that compelled the Senate President who was then the state governor to reopen it, the institute has been operating without adequate funding as students school fees were skyrocketed beyond the reach of ordinary Kwarans.

It was gathered that students pay between fifty to sixty thousands naira every year without adequate educational inputs. A lecturer who spoke to our medium said that “the last time the college has a good management staff was when Dr. Toyin Akanbi, was the Provost of the college and that since then, it has been a rough road to anonymity”.